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Daniel Castanho

Daniel Castanho is a Brazilian entrepreneur who cofounded Ânima Educação in 2003, led it as CEO for 15 years, and has chaired its board since 2018.

Daniel Kjellen

Daniel Kjellen is a Swedish technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Stockholm open banking platform Tink in 2012 and led it as chief executive until its acquisition by Visa for 1.8 billion euros.

Daniel Krauss

Daniel Krauss, born 1983, is a German technology entrepreneur who co-founded Flix SE, the Munich-based intercity bus and rail platform, and serves as its CIO and CHRO.

Daniel Scandian

Daniel Scandian is a Brazilian entrepreneur who co-founded the online furniture retailer MadeiraMadeira in Curitiba in 2009, a former Formula 3 champion who made the company a unicorn in 2021.

Daniel Vogel

Daniel Vogel is a Mexican technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Bitso, a Mexico City-based digital asset platform that became Latin America's first crypto unicorn in 2021.

Daniil Barkalov

Daniil Barkalov is a Russian-born fintech executive, co-founder and chief operating officer of Tabby, the buy-now-pay-later company launched in Dubai in 2019 and valued at $6.5 billion in 2026.

Darren Mills

Darren Mills is a British video-game executive who co-founded the Sheffield developer Sumo Digital in 2003, led its studio as director, and left when the founders stepped down in 2025.

David Arana

David Arana Ley is a Mexican fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Konfío in 2013, a digital lender to small businesses that reached a $1.3 billion valuation in 2021.

David Horovitz

David Horovitz is a UK-born Israeli journalist, author, and media founder who launched The Times of Israel in 2012 after editing The Jerusalem Post and The Jerusalem Report.

Dávid Mészáros

Dávid Mészáros (Mészáros Dávid) is a Hungarian internet entrepreneur who founded ingatlan.com in 1997 as an architecture student and built it into Hungary's dominant property portal.

David Reger

David Reger, born 1988, is a German entrepreneur and founder and CEO of NEURA Robotics, a Metzingen robotics company that raised about $1.6 billion.

DBS

DBS, also known as Danpullo Broadcasting System, is a private Cameroonian television channel owned by businessman Baba Ahmadou Danpullo, who entered broadcasting with it in 2009.

Demet Mutlu

Demet Mutlu is a Turkish entrepreneur who founded and leads Trendyol, Turkey's largest e-commerce company, leaving a Harvard MBA to start it with $300,000 of savings.

Diane Karusisi

Diane Karusisi is a Rwandan economist and banker, chief executive of Bank of Kigali since 2016 and a former chief economist in the Office of the President.

Diego Dzodan

Diego Dzodan is a technology executive who co-founded the Brazilian social-commerce marketplace Facily in 2018, after serving as vice-president of Facebook for Latin America from 2015 to 2018.

Diego García Escobedo

Diego Iván García Escobedo is a Mexican technology entrepreneur who co-founded Clara, a corporate spend-management fintech, in Mexico City in 2020 and heads its product and technology.

Diego Martins (Brazilian technology entrepreneur)

Diego Torres Martins is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded unico, a digital identity and fraud-prevention company, in São Paulo in 2007 and leads it as chief executive officer.

Digikala

Digikala (دیجی‌کالا) is an Iranian e-commerce company founded in Tehran in 2006 by brothers Hamid and Saeid Mohammadi, which has grown into Iran's largest online marketplace.

Discovery Limited (South African insurer)

Discovery Limited is a South African financial services group founded by Adrian Gore in 1992 and listed on the JSE since 1999, known for its Vitality rewards insurance model.

dLocal

dLocal is a cross-border payments company founded in 2016 in Montevideo, Uruguay, letting global merchants accept local payment methods in emerging markets through a single API.

Doron Myersdorf

Doron Myersdorf is an Israeli entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of StoreDot, a battery company founded in 2012 in Herzliya that develops extreme fast charging cells for electric vehicles.

Dotomi

Dotomi was an internet advertising technology company co-founded by ICQ co-founder Yair Goldfinger, building personalized display advertising for retailers before ValueClick bought it in 2011 for $295 million.

Dr. Alexander Glätzle

Dr. Alexander Glätzle is a quantum physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded planqc in 2022, a neutral-atom quantum computing startup in Garching near Munich, and leads it as CEO.

Dr. Sebastian Blatt

Dr. Sebastian Blatt is a quantum physicist who co-founded the quantum computing startup planqc in Garching near Munich and leads the Strontium group at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics.

Dr. Simon Haddadin

Dr. Simon Haddadin, born 1986 in Bad Oeynhausen, is a German physician and robotics entrepreneur who co-founded Franka Emika in Munich in 2016 and won the 2017 Deutscher Zukunftspreis.

Drew Durbin

Drew Durbin is the American co-founder and CEO of Wave, a mobile money company launched in Senegal in 2018 that reached a $1.7 billion valuation in 2021.

DriveNets

DriveNets is an Israeli networking software company founded in 2015 by Ido Susan and headquartered in Ra'anana, whose Network Cloud software runs core routing on white-box hardware.

EBANX

EBANX is a Brazilian cross-border payments technology company founded in 2012 in Curitiba by Alphonse Voigt, João Del Valle, and Wagner Ruiz, connecting global merchants with local payment methods like Pix and boleto.

Eberhard Hinderer

Eberhard Hinderer is a German mechanical engineer who co-founded Vector Informatik near Stuttgart in 1988, managed it for about 26 years, and retired in 2014.

Ebrahim Al-Jassim

Ebrahim Aljassim is a Saudi entrepreneur who founded HungerStation in 2012, led it until his 2019 termination by Delivery Hero, and later founded the quick-commerce company Ninja.